The Garden By The Bridge Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF CDCD GHGH AIAI JKJK LMLN LOLO CHCH PBPB QRQR ACAC LSLS JTJT CUCU CVCV| The Desert sands are heated parched and dreary | A |
| The tigers rend alive their quivering prey | B |
| In the near Jungle here the kites rise weary | A |
| Too gorged with living food to fly away | B |
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| All night the hungry jackals howl together | C |
| Over the carrion in the river bed | D |
| Or seize some small soft thing of fur or feather | C |
| Whose dying shrieks on the night air are shed | D |
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| I hear from yonder Temple in the distance | E |
| Whose roof with obscene carven Gods is piled | F |
| Reiterated with a sad insistence | E |
| Sobs of perhaps some immolated child | F |
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| Strange rites here where the archway's shade is deeper | C |
| Are consummated in the river bed | D |
| Parias steal the rotten railway sleeper | C |
| To burn the bodies of their cholera dead | D |
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| But yet their lust their hunger cannot shame them | G |
| Goaded by fierce desire that flays and stings | H |
| Poor beasts and poorer men Nay who shall blame them | G |
| Blame the Inherent Cruelty of Things | H |
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| The world is horrible and I am lonely | A |
| Let me rest here where yellow roses bloom | I |
| And find forgetfulness remembering only | A |
| Your face beside me in the scented gloom | I |
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| Nay do not shrink I am not here for passion | J |
| I crave no love only a little rest | K |
| Although I would my face lay lover's fashion | J |
| Against the tender coolness of your breast | K |
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| I am so weary of the Curse of Living | L |
| The endless aimless torture tumult fears | M |
| Surely if life were any God's free giving | L |
| He seeing His gift long since went blind with tears | N |
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| Seeing us our fruitless strife our futile praying | L |
| Our luckless Present and our bloodstained Past | O |
| Poor players who make a trick or two in playing | L |
| But know that death must win the game at last | O |
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| As round the Fowler red with feathered slaughter | C |
| The little joyous lark unconscious sings | H |
| As the pink Lotus floats on azure water | C |
| Innocent of the mud from whence it springs | H |
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| You walk through life unheeding all the sorrow | P |
| The fear and pain set close around your way | B |
| Meeting with hopeful eyes each gay to morrow | P |
| Living with joy each hour of glad to day | B |
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| I love to have you thus nay dear lie quiet | Q |
| How should these reverent fingers wrong your hair | R |
| So calmly careless of the rush and riot | Q |
| That rages round is seething everywhere | R |
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| You do not understand You think your beauty | A |
| Does but inflame my senses to desire | C |
| Till all you hold as loyalty and duty | A |
| Is shrunk and shrivelled in the ardent fire | C |
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| You wrong me wearied out with thought and grieving | L |
| As though the whole world's sorrow eat my heart | S |
| I come to gaze upon your face believing | L |
| Its beauty is as ointment to the smart | S |
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| Lie still and let me in my desolation | J |
| Caress the soft loose hair a moment's span | T |
| Since Loveliness is Life's one Consolation | J |
| And love the only Lethe left to man | T |
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| Ah give me here beneath the trees in flower | C |
| Beside the river where the fireflies pass | U |
| One little dusky all consoling hour | C |
| Lost in the shadow of the long grown grass | U |
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| Give me oh you whose arms are soft and slender | C |
| Whose eyes are nothing but one long caress | V |
| Against your heart so innocent and tender | C |
| A little Love and some Forgetfulness | V |
Laurence Hope (adela Florence Cory Nicolson)
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